Are you suggesting that if a Republican becomes poor they stop supporting cutting away the welfare net? I can think of a few examples where people vote against their own self-interest because of spin and that includes cutting back on services that they might benefit from.

I've noticed this pattern in general. Republicans are fine with outlawing, cutting funding, reducing availability, etc. Until they need it. Then the song changes. You can always find exceptions, but it's a general pattern.

I thought her speech came off as shrill and nasty. And I'd be saying that if she was Obama's VP, too.

My other thought was, at the beginning when she was ticking off the names of her family, how much filler was that to be naming family members and getting applause, when she should have been making a case for herself? I didn't get it.

Halfway through Sarah Palin's speech tonight at the RNC, people following the speech noticed she was deviating from the prepared text.

According to sources close to the McCain campaign, the teleprompter continued scrolling during applause breaks. As a result, half way through the speech, the speech had scrolled significantly from where Governor Palin was in the speech. The malfunction also occurred during Rudy Giuliani's speech, explaining his significant deviations from his speech.

Unfazed, Governor Palin continued, from memory, to deliver her speech without the teleprompter cued to the appropriate point in her speech.

Contrast this to Barack Obama who, when last his teleprompter malfunctioned, was left stuttering before a crowd unable to advance his speech until the problem was resolved.